10 Saddest Horror Movie Moments

10. Mother/Son Hybrid - Color Out Of Space

Back in 2019, The Color Out of Space - one of Lovecraft's more underrated works - was adapted into a movie starring everyone's favourite actor, Nicolas Cage. The story tells of a strange light that falls from the heavens onto a small farmhouse, and proceeds to drive the poor family living on that farm hopelessly mad. And if driving them mad isn't quite doing the trick, the light can get... creative.

When the youngest son, Jack gets too close to the light during one of its freakouts, his mother, Theresa, rushes to save him. She's just in time to grab onto her son when the light reaches them, fusing them into a single, horrifying being. 

This scene is both nightmarish and emotionally devastating, as you can hear their groans and cries both during and after the transformation. And while you never get a really good look at what the Color did to them, you see enough that your brain fills in the blanks. 

Theresa just did what any mother would do in this situation, and her reward for it was a fate so much worse than death, both for her and her son.